September 18, 2024 8:58 pm

Roger Ebert Reviews

Jeffrey Dean Morgan Guest Stars for The Boys Season 4

The casting reunites “The Walking Dead” star with Eric Kripke, “Supernatural” creator and “The Boys” showrunner. Plus, Ewan McGregor returns to TV and more of the week’s top TV and streaming news. ​The casting reunites “The Walking Dead” star with Eric Kripke, “Supernatural” creator and “The Boys” showrunner. Plus, Ewan McGregor returns to TV and […]

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Growth in Discomfort: Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall on Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

“I love the theatre!” exclaims a young churchgoer in writer/director Adamma Ebo’s debut feature, “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.,” based on her brilliant 2018 short film of the same name. It turns out that what appeared on the surface to be a spiritual channeling experienced by the girl was little more than play-acting. Indeed,

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The Invitation

During these last, lazy days of summer, there isn’t a whole lot to do. Still, you’re probably going to want to RSVP “no” to “The Invitation.” It had such potential, too. Director and co-writer Jessica M. Thompson establishes an unsettling mood that suggests we’re about to enter a dark and twisted world. But then eventually,

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Me Time

You have to hand it to Kevin Hart for his prolificacy at the very least, keeping the middle-brow, upper-middle-budget studio comedy going on his own terms. After the tortured (but admittedly, quite watchable) “The Man From Toronto,” Hart—alongside Mark Wahlberg—headlines another Netflix bromance caper with “Me Time.” Think of it as a grown man’s “Risky

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Trevante Rhodes Captivates in Hulu’s Mike but the Show Loses the Fight

“Every time I thought something was wrong, I f**ked it up even more.” That about sums up the life of Mike Tyson. There was something about the champ that made every bad situation into something much, much worse. A fascinating athlete, celebrity, and criminal, Tyson seems like the perfect subject for the Craig Gillespie brand of

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Samaritan

“25 years ago the world’s greatest superhero vanished,” according to the poster for Prime Video’s “Samaritan.” The narration by Sam (Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton) that opens the film gives us the Cliffs Notes version of how he did. Samaritan had a nemesis, a twin brother named—you guessed it—Nemesis. As kids “they were freakishly strong,” Sam tells

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A Difficult Journey: Why I Flew Across the Country to See Lawrence of Arabia

It seemed like a good idea at the time. I started seeing 70mm film festivals pop up all over the country this summer. The Somerville Theatre near Boston had its 70mm and widescreen festival in June. While that was happening, the Music Box Theatre’s 70mm fest went on in Chicago. Last month, the American Cinematheque

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Explorer

We do not talk about explorers much these days. The stories of Columbus, Magellan, Sir Edmund Hillary, Shackleton, Perry, Armstrong, and Aldrin may still dazzle us, but these days it’s more about scientists sending technology, not humans, into the sky and the oceans to report back to us. Mount Everest was a front-page story of astonishing

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#440 August 30, 2022

Matt writes: In past years, the Toronto International Film Festival’s annual Ebert Director Award has been given to such revered talents as Martin Scorsese, Claire Denis, Ava DuVernay, Wim Wenders, Agnès Varda, Denis Villeneuve, Chloé Zhao and Taika Waititi. This year, the accolade will be presented to Oscar-winner Sam Mendes in-person at the 2022 TIFF Tribute Awards gala fundraiser on Sunday, September 11th, at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel

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National Cinema Day to Offer $3 Movie Tickets on Saturday, September 3rd

The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit branch of the National Association of Theatre Owners, has named this Saturday, September 3rd, National Cinema Day, a one-day event that will see participating locations sell movie tickets for prices as low as three dollars. This special effort aims to reinvigorate moviegoing will occur at more than 3,000 theaters across the U.S.,

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